Religion has provided the world with true redemption — and about an equal amount of evil. It’s given us soup kitchens and hospitals — and it’s given us inquisitions and terrorists. It’s burnished some ...

This week marks the beginning of the holiest period of the year for roughly 14 million Jews across the globe. As they celebrate the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, they begin looking back on the past twelve ...

In their attacks on God and religion, the neo-atheist authors such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are especially vehement in their accusations concerning the effects of ...

Is religion a medicine for what ails us? If we’re talking about physical and mental health, the answer has been difficult to come by. Large-scale studies have consistently shown a strong association ...

Religion, runs an old argument, is bad for democracy. The basis of religious belief and practice is an appeal to divine authority, and modern democracy arose from the Enlightenment-era insight that we ...

This past week, once again a Western city was the victim of a religiously-motivated act of terror. A fanatic chose to drive a rental vehicle onto a bike path in New ...

This week marks the beginning of the holiest period of the year for roughly 14 million Jews across the globe. As they celebrate the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, they begin looking back on the past twelve ...